Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Shelter in Bodelwyddan Castle Garden
Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 6 December 2002
- Locality
- Bodelwyddan Castle
- Community
- Bodelwyddan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26014, -3.50348
- Cadw reference
- 80747
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
About 150m SW of Bodelwyddan Castle, to the N of the Walled Garden and to the W of the Maze. The site is enclosed on its W side by a low limestone rubble wall.
History
Probably contemporary with the children''s play house, c1850; it may have been intended to shelter the children''s nurserymaid while the children were playing at the play house.
Exterior
A simple sub-octagonal brick building with an arch to the front, the front and the interior rendered and painted white. Slate roof with mortared hips. Benches inside.
Reason for designation
A simple shelter associated with the children''s play house, all within a small walled garden.
Nearby in the register
- Play House in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Obelisk in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Wall of Bodelwyddan Castle Garden with Bothy at W and Gateway at ENo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bodelwyddan CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.